All That Smolders

 All That Smolders

Reviewed By  Ian Banks       December 2, 2025

 

Author  James Sulzer

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 978-1636987576
Publisher:         Morgan James Fiction
Release Date:   2 December 2025  

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All That Smolders from James Sulzer is set in Nantucket, Massachusetts in the 1980s is a slow burn to begin with but it is well worth persevering as it gets, better, much better as each of what seems to be a tangle of loose ends going nowhere, begins to form into a murder mystery that is thoroughly entertaining.

Peter Christie has been through a bitter divorce and has moved to a Nantucket to begin again. He hopes a fresh start will work and when he meets Haddie Danville, he hopes this is the beginning of something good, but Haddie does not want to be rushed; she likes to take things slowly. 

When her beloved grandfather is murdered, she is devastated. Peter hopes that by putting his often abused journalist skill into action, he may be able to help find the killer; a man who as it turns out is prepared to kill and kill again. The issue is why?

As Haddie and Peter dig deeper into the past of the Island community, they begin to discover that all is far from what it seems; that one man’s secret seems to be the motive behind the killings but is it a powerful enough secret to make one man believe he needs to kill?

Digging ever deeper they find there seems to be more questions than answers. When they finally isolate the person, whom they believe is responsible for the murders, they find they become the hunted which plunges them both into a quandary and immense danger.

All That Smolders is an armchair murder mystery every wannabe sleuth will enjoy.

Crime, Fiction, Thriller